Bianca Harkless
Editor-In-Chief
Who has heard of the Netflix docuseries ‘Don’t F*** with Cats’? Luka Magnotta is a terrible dude and I think everyone that knows his name would agree. For those of you who are fortunate enough not to know who this man is, let me catch you up.
Before this story goes any further, it will contain mentions of animal abuse, animal cruelty, torture to animals, and torture to people. If you are uncomfortable with this topic, please do not read this story and do not look into this case. The videos this man took of his horrible acts are out there and if you do not want to see them, do not look into it.
We will start out in 2010 when Magnotta posted a video on his Facebook titled “3 Guys, 1 Hammer” which depicted a man being beaten to death with a hammer. December 21st, 2010 the narious “1 Guy- 2 Kittens” video came out and started making its circles around discussion groups. The video depicted an unidentified man placing two kittens in a sealed bag before sucking the air out of them with a vacuum, suffocating them. Youtube removed the video once animal rights activists learned about it. After the video came out, Ryan Boyle formed a group called “Fine the Vacuum Kitten Killer for Great Justice” and 4,000 people felt the same way.
On the 28th of December 2010, a $5,000 dollar reward was posted by a group called Rescue Ink, an animal protection group, asking for information that might lead to the arrest of the kitten murder. In November of 2011, more kitten videos were posted. One of the videos showed a man wearing a Santa hat feeding a live kitten to a python and another depicted a kitten duct taped to the handle of a broom and then being drowned in the bathtub. This whole time the internet sleuth group was trying to find out who this man was by using various details in the videos ranging from what was playing in the background of the videos to what type of vacuum he was using in the original video and they had come close to finding him.
The online investigators had found ties to Montreal via a picture posted on Magnotta’s Facebook. The group then went street by street through Montreal to find the exact spot the photo was taken. During this time, Magnotta had begun to post various things about Necrophilia and sedatives.
May 15th, 2012, a new video was being promoted. This video was labeled “1 lunatic 1 ice pick” which showed and looked oddly similar to the videos of the kitten killer. May 24th, 2012, Chinese immigrant Jun Lin, the man featured in the video, failed to show up to his job which faced concern from his friends and colleagues. May 25th, the “1 lunatic 1 ice pick” video was posted. It depicted a young man tied to a bed, “barely alive and then lifeless,” according to a timeline done by cbc.ca. In the video there were acts of dismemberment, overkill, necrophilia and finally cannibalism. The group immediately alerted both american and Candian police about the video and their suspicions of it being Magnotta but they did not take them seriously about it. On May 29th, 2012, investigators started out looking for body parts in the street after a maintenance worker found a body part in a suitcase and Lin was reported missing by friends.
A nationwide warrant was put out for Magnotta on May 30th, 2012, the same day that his apartment became the focus for the police investigation where they found blood stained items. June 1st, they identified Jun Lin as the victim. On June 3rd, Magnotta was spotted in France where he fled shortly after the video was posted. The day later he was arrested without incident from an internet cafe in Germany. He was deported back to Canada where he would face all of the legal proceedings. He pleaded not guilty on June 19th, 2012, on a later date his legal team tried to have the court case closed from the public and media, but their case was ultimately denied. After a long and heavy trial, Magnotta was found guily of first degree murder in the killling and dismemberment of Jun Lin. He was also convicted of four other charges. For his crimes, Magnotta was given life in prison for the murder and the maximum sensetence on the other four charges which ranged in time from 2 to 10 years, according to GlobalNews.ca.
Moral of the story, do not do weird things on the internet, do not kill cats, and certainly do not kill other people.
Image Credit: Oguzhan Akdongan
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